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You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

Joseph Campbell

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
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People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.
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